Rookyard Farmhouse
ROOKYARD FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352300
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Rookyard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKYARD FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352300
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Rookyard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKYARD FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKYARD FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Newton with Dagworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05095 63111
Details
OLD NEWTON STOWMARKET ROAD TM 06 SE WITH DAGWORTH Rookyard Farmhouse 5/156 (formerly listed as 09/12/55 Rookery Farmhouse and barn) -- II
Farmhouse; built in 2 stages, corner-to-corner: an early C16 service range to left, and a main range of c.1550 of 3-cell cross-entry plan to right. Timber framed and plastered. Hipped plaintiled roofs. Two axial C17 chimneys of red brick with sawtooth shafts; that to left has a moulded course to the plinth and is possibly later. Mainly early C19 small-pane windows: 3-light casements at 1st storey and tripartite sashes below. At cross-entry position is an early C19 doorway with slender fluted pilasters and cornice with paterae; early C20 panelled door, and another in left hand range. The main range has good quality mid-C16 framing with double-ogee moulded beams and joists. One of a pair of 4-centred arched service room doorways, with concealed carved spandrels. Wind-braced clasped purlin roof. The lower range is slightly earlier; the south gable has an altered end-jetty at 1st floor level. Unmoulded framing. The roof was rebuilt in C18/C19.
Listing NGR: TM0509563111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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